History is littered with “wild” ideas that experts once mocked, only to embrace them later when evidence piled up. Nowhere is that reversal more dramatic than in medicine, where supernatural and moral ...

Reality is far stranger than fiction. While our everyday experience suggests a world that follows predictable, intuitive rules, science has repeatedly shown us that the universe operates in ways that ...

Theory is our basic scientific tool for establishing knowledge. It dictates how we conduct patient care, teaching, and research. 1 Once adopted, it simply becomes automatic, those guided by it ...

Current efforts to stifle scientific theories in school are reminiscent of the attacks on the teaching of the theory of evolution. iStock / Getty Images Plus The approach is not limited to evolution.